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Quotes about Wise

Normal men, speak, listen and than think.
Wise men, listen, think and then speak.
Wise women, listen, think and speak all at the same time.
While normal women don't seem to think or listen at all,
to normal men that is.

Domus Ulixes : Some Kid
Frederik Kerling
 
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"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."

unknown : Gaia Child
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When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise.

Anon
Source: Yiddish Proverb
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He Who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it posses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Vernon Howard : Gaia Child
Vernon Howard
Source: from a talk given 6/29/1988
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There's nothing I have to have, there's nothing I have to do, and there's nothing I have to be, except exactly what I am being right now.
That does not mean that "having" and "doing" will be eliminated from your life. It means that  what you experience yourself having or doing will spring from your being - not lead you to it.
When you come from "happiness", you do certain things because you are happy - as opposed to the old paradigm in which you did things that you hoped would make you happy.
When you come from "wisdom", you do certain things because you are wise, not because you are trying to get to wisdom.
When you come from "love", you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

Everything changes; everything turns around, when you come from "being", rather than seeking to "be." You cannot "do" your way to "being". Whether you are trying to "be" happy, be wise, be love - or be God - you cannot "get there" by doing. And yet, it is true that you will be doing wonderful things once you "get there."

Here is the Divine Dichotomy. The way to "get there" is to "be there." Just be where you choose to get!
It's that simply. There's nothing you have to do. You want to be happy? Be happy. You want to be wise? Be wise. You want to be love?

Be love.

That is Who You Are in any event.

You are my Beloved.

Neale Donald Walsch : founded ReCreation Foundation, written Conversations with God books
Neale Donald Walsch
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A wise man learns from his mistakes, a wiser man learn's from the mistakes of the one around him.

unknown : Gaia Child
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed.  I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men. 

W. Somerset Maugham
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    And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves:  when you lose life, you grow wise.  But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

John Holmes
Source: The Horn
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Ask questions of the learned, speak with the wise, and associate with the poor.

Muhammad
 
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“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”

Huang Po
 
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/albert-schweitzer.htm
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Of the four kinds of being,
From Brahma to a blade of grass,
Only the wise man is strong enough
To give up desire and aversion.
How rare he is!
Knowing he is the Self,
He acts accordingly
And is never fearful.
For he knows he is the Self,
One without two,
The Lord of all creation.

Astavakra Gita
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/who-am-i-quotes.htm
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Don't believe everything you think...

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: Unknown
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As the old saying goes, what the wise man does in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Warren Buffett : US investment banker, chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc, billionaire investor
Warren Buffett (1930 - )
 
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The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool.  The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Siddhartha Guatama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada
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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : German philosopher who delivered his philosophy "with a hammer"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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